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The National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) has lost its private sponsors, as reported by El País and confirmed by La Vanguardia after consulting all parties. The departures announced today of the BBVA Foundation and the Cris Against Cancer Foundation add to that of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), which occurred on March 9 and was already known. The exit of the private institutions is motivated by the reputational damage that has affected the oncology research center, after the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opened proceedings last December regarding an alleged scheme that may have diverted up to 25 million euros from budgets over 18 years through the alleged rigging of contracts, and also due to the recent resignation of the manager, José Manuel Bernabé, accused of harassment.

The number of Catalan schools and institutes that have decided not to schedule trips or school camps for the 2026/27 academic year as a pressure measure to achieve educational improvements continues to increase. The platform that counts the centers that have joined the claim is about to reach 800: There are already 771, to be exact. All this continues to add uncertainty about what will happen with this activity in the next academic year.

One year after the blackout in Spain, which led us to an unusual situation, any major service outage begins to seem possible. We now live in a kind of technological variant of the Overton window concept, a theoretical model in political science by which an unthinkable discourse or situation ends up being accepted in the long run as normal due to its constant presence in the public space.

The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, ruled out this Tuesday that the pilot plan to deploy six plainclothes police officers in Catalan schools to reduce conflicts is due to “security problems” in the educational centers of the territory.

The images recorded by the cameras of the Iryo train that crashed in Adamuz (Córdoba), collected in a new report by the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF), support the hypothesis of a rail break on the Seville-Madrid high-speed line as the cause of the derailment and subsequent collision with an Alvia, which caused the death of 46 people. From the analysis of the videos, it is “not evident”, as stated in the report accessed by La Vanguardia, that there were “anomalies” in any of the trains involved before 19:43:22 on January 18, when Iryo’s car 6 was circulating at the height “of the breaking point”.

At a time when the process of regularizing immigrants continues to pit the Government and most of the parties that support it against the PP and, above all, Vox, a report on youth reveals that young people between 15 and 29 years old believe that “Spain needs immigrants to maintain its way of life” (50%) and the number of those who think that immigrants take jobs from Spaniards is decreasing (43% in 2025, compared to 78% 20 years ago). However, the idea launched, especially by the far-right, that “we give too many facilities to immigrants” (59%) has taken hold, and 61% link their presence to an increase in crime and public insecurity.

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has decided to retract from its scientific journal (PNAS) an article published by a group of researchers, including the Spanish Mariano Barbacid, on advances in combating pancreatic cancer, after detecting a “significant” conflict of interest.

The European Parliament is back at it, pushing to extend the “only yes means yes” rule across the entire EU. This means requiring member states to define rape based on the absence of explicit consent, rather than the use of force, following the Istanbul Convention. The plenary of the European Parliament voted on Tuesday in favor of a report to include consent in the directive on gender-based violence in EU law, something it already tried to do during the previous legislature, but which was left pending due to the refusal of some member states, led by France and Germany, who argued the EU’s lack of competence to regulate such a matter at a European level.

The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, announced this Monday that the Government will waive undue charges and administrative delays that the Catalan administration has been claiming after the death of people who received economic benefits for dependency, as well as in cases derived from changes in their economic situation or in the assessment of their degree of dependency.

Just over a month ago, coinciding with the start of the conflict, the board of directors of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) assessed the impact of the Middle East war on drug supply. It did not detect major disruptions, but it did warn that the persistence of logistical difficulties could increase the risk of shortages. The pharmaceutical sector sees the probability of shortages of ingredients, medicines, or medical devices becoming increasingly likely.